Rebecca Day

At various times from March 2021 to April, the defendants in a fraud lawsuit marketed, distributed and sold counterfeit Nintendo products on Amazon.com using Nintendo’s trademarks, without authorization, alleged co-plaintiffs Amazon and Nintendo in a complaint Friday (docket 2:23-cv-01641) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. Defendants Does 1-10 are currently unknown to the plaintiffs, said the complaint.

LG Electronics USA and its Mobilecomm subsidiary owe marketing services company GS Line (GSL) “several million dollars” for unpaid or underpaid invoices spanning several years, alleged a fraud lawsuit (docket 2:23-cv-21528) Thursday in U.S. District Court for New Jersey in Newark.

Food 4 Less, part of the Ralphs and Kroger supermarket chains, unlawfully collects, uses and retains personal biometric identifiers of employees in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), alleged a complaint (docket 1:23-cv-15345) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.

Software development kits (SDKs) in NBC apps allow app and website developers to “surreptitiously collect and transmit data to third parties,” said a privacy class action (docket 1:23-cv-09433) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.

If Iqvia’s purchase of Propel Media (PMI) goes through, the acquisition would “eliminate intense head-to-head competition” between Iqvia’s Lasso division and PMI’s DeepIntent healthcare professional (HCP) programmatic advertising platform, said the FTC’s redacted memorandum of law Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-06188) in support of its motion for a preliminary injunction to block the acquisition on antitrust grounds.

The FTC has failed to state a valid claim that Amazon uses unfair competitive methods for enabling subscriptions and cancellations, said the Computer & Communications Industry Association, NetChoice and the Chamber of Progress in their motion for leave Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-00932) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle to file an amicus brief in support of Amazon’s motion to dismiss. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) also sought leave Wednesday to file amicus briefs in support of Amazon’s motion.

The plaintiffs in two fraud class actions against Amazon over its return policies filed a joint motion with a proposed order (docket 2:23-cv-01545) to consolidate cases Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle, but they disagree on how the case should go forward. They asked the court for its “guidance” on how to proceed if it grants the motion to consolidate.

The 33 attorneys general suing Meta in California et al. vs. Meta over Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) violations filed an administrative motion (docket 4:23-cv-05448) Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland to consider whether materials designated as confidential by Meta should be sealed.

Personally identifiable information (PII) from 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature is “now in the hands of criminal hackers,” said a privacy class action Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-05464) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.

Spotlighting their bipartisan effort to challenge a common Meta foe as the alleged culprit in the youth mental health crisis, attorneys general from six states used a virtual news conference Tuesday to announce the filing of a 33-state lawsuit (docket 4:23-cv-05448) against the Instagram and Facebook parent in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.